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Leading the pack by a huge margin was Dropbox with 52%—How big of a margin? So big we had to pay a premium for that extra-wide chart you see below. Following Dropbox was the trio of quick-share file sites Megaupload (14%), MediaFire (12%), and RapidShare (9%). Rounding out the Hive was Drop.io (5%) which actually fell in last behind the miscellaneous category Other which pulled in 7%. Click on the graph below to see the results in bar-chart form.

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